Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-03
brighten and make glad, but more especi-

brighten and make glad, but more especi-
ally the former.
By the Apostle Paul, shadows tonight
Have struck more terror to the soul of
Richard
soldiers,
And led by shallow Richmond.
The follies of dream books are so appa-
rent that the truly intelligent give them
but little attention. For instance, we
are told that to dream of a torn hat de-
notes dishonor; of hail, trouble; horse,
consolation; island, loneliness; light
ming, war; looking glass, quarrels; and
so on. To dream of love is favorable
omen, and the man who invented dream
books evidently catered to the softer sex.
To dream you wade in mire and stubble
Foretelleth surely toll and trouble;
Yet perseverance will not fail
Ger toll and trouble to PREVAIL
Marie Lenormand, the celebrated fe-
male necromancer of Napoleon's court,
became famous for her interpretations of
the dreams gifts tenants from the Emperor
down. Josephine consulted her frequently
during Napoleon's absence on his cam
casion alarm throughout the imperial
household. AT one time the Empress
was so disturbed over vision which &C.
CURED during Mile. Lenormand's absence
from the capital that she dispatched
messenger after the fair astrologist and
forced her to return before her time.
Soldiers have been known to go into
battle disturbed by some dream of the
previous night. They have dreamed of
being mangled by the bullets of the
enemy, or of being shot dead in the
ranks. There are many seemingly well
authenticated cases of the fultillment of
such dreams, and the annals of the late
war abound in them. There is an ac-
count of the colonel of Virginia regi-
ment who, the night before san
culinary engagement, had dream which
greatly impressed him. 1t was repeated
twice before morning. just before the
opening of the battle he related his
dream to his adjutant, drew up his will
and distributed keepsakes among his i'm
mediate friends. He had dreamed that
he had fallen in a charge, and his de-
scription of the ground, which he had
never seen, was perfect. When the adj
vance was ordered the soldier stepped
heroically to the front and threw himself
into the fight. In time came the desper-
ate charge, and the Virginian fell dead
at the foot of the tree he had described
to his adiutant.
Whether or not there be anything in
dreams, we cannot dismiss them on the
ground of being frauds. Hippocrates
was wont TO affirm that when the body is
asleep the soul is awake, and that it
transports itself everywhere the body
would be able to go. Men have solved
in sleep problems that puzzled them
during their waking hours. Some of the
most difficult mathematical calculations
have been worked out during sleep, and
it is said that Marshal Vauban first saw
the plans of some of his impregnable
fortresses in his dreams.
Did you ever, reader, experience in
slumber the awful sensation of falling
from vast height? In cases of this
kind we usually awake just before we
strike, as if the genius of dreams
watches fondly over her patrons. A
French lad once dreamed of falling
from the pinnacle of one of the loftiest
spires in the land. In his descent he
caught and chung to for a moment a pro-
jecting timber, then went headlong
downward again. But he had noticed
that at the point where he had stopped
the spire was unsafe, and the relation of
his dream brought about an investiga-
ton. Then it was found that in few
days more the steeple would have top
pied over and its fall into the street
| might have cost scores of lives.
Instances of this kind are not plenty,
nor are they too rare to entirely Danish
| ones belief in dreams. The monstrous
visions of De Quincy were not the results
of healthful slumber, but the natural Sc
| quence of dangerous indulgence. The
same may be said of some of Byron's
dreams, and one would think after an
evening with Poe that that brilliant but
somewhat cratic genius found in visions,
rather than in his waking hours, the
plots of his weird tales.
The hunter that barks in his sleep
doubtless chases the quarry through the
valleys of dreamland. Other animals
have been known to perform acts during
slumber which denote that the wand of
the mystic goddess who goes hand in
hand with sleep touches them as ii
touches our own senses. The dream OF
the dog is not of that high order which
distinguishes the dreams of mankind
Neither does it linger as do our visions
and bone causes him to forget the whole
thing.
If dreams are really the "forms and
shadows of real events" as johanna
Baltic calls them, we must give them al
least more than passing attention. Now
reader, do not on the strength of this ar
ticle purchase at once dream-book OIL
oracle of fate, and place it under the pill
low where it can be consulted the first
thing in the morning; but rather live
with due regard for the laws of health
so that the visions of the night may be
visions of gentleness and beauty.
Just one look before 1 sleep,
Just one parting glance to keep
On my heart and on my brain
| Every line and feature plain,
In sweet hopes that they may be,
Present in these dreams to me,
Which the gentle night hour brings
Ever OH her starry wings.
II. G. HARBAUGH.
| SINGING AND FEELING.